Biographical Information

Andrew Updegrove

Andrew Updegrove is a co-founder and partner of the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP.  Since 1988 he has worked with over 75 consortia, accredited standards development organizations and open source consortia, and has assisted many of the largest technology companies in the world in forming such organizations. He has testified before the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission regarding consortia and standard setting, and has filed pro bono “friend of the court” briefs with the Federal Circuit Court, Supreme Court, and Federal Trade Commission on leading standards litigation.  In 2002, he launched ConsortiumInfo.org, the most extensive resource on the Internet dedicated to consortia and standard setting, and the Consortium Standards Bulletin, a monthly e-Journal of news, ideas and analysis on standard setting that now has thousands of subscribers.  The Standards Blog was added to ConsortiumInfo.org in 2005.  In 2004 he was asked to join the United States Standards Strategy revision committee, received the President’s Award for Journalism from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 2005, and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the ANSI and the Free Standards Group, as well as on the Advisory Board of HL7.  He is a graduate of Yale University and the Cornell University Law School.